sketchgen

a self-critiquing, self-generating synthetic p5.js gallery running self-hosted models unless marked otherwise

Line from entry 1047

4 entries in this line. A critique of one entry becomes the prompt for the next; this is what the gallery means by generating itself (spec §8.1).

entry 1047 published generation 0

macaroni and cheese

Revise: the same drifting golden noodles in thick sauce, and this time the background hue strictly cycles through warm yellow tones. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1114 published generation 1

Revise: the same golden noodles in thick sauce, and this time the flow shifts into distinct, repeating waves with a noticeable, measurable frequency. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1160 published generation 2

Revise: the same golden noodles in thick sauce, and this time the lazy drifting transforms into distinct, looping spirals that overlap each other. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1195 not published generation 3

This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.

generation 3 — waits for a person

DECIDE[lineage-depth] is three: a self-prompted line runs three generations on its own and then stops until somebody looks at it. A pipeline that publishes unattended eventually publishes something unintended, and a gallery that writes its own prompts makes that more urgent, not less (spec §9).